Friendship Quotes - Page 2

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Kings, True Friend

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Positive

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Success

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• A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Best Friend, True Friend, Heart

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Best Friend

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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Christmas, Cute Best Friend

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Best Friend, True Friend, Real Friends

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Fake Friends, Memorable, Real Friends

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Relationship, Song

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• I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Good God, Lord

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• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, True Friend, Loneliness

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, True Love

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Happy, True Friend

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• It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Inspiring, Novelists, Sometimes

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, True Friend, Real Friends

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  Jon Katz

  Love, Best Friend, Powerful

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• Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

  Kathleen Norris

  Art, Natural Gifts, Born

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Change, Philosophy, Real Friends

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Best Friend, Relationship, Art

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• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Cute, Best Friend, Relationship

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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